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Heidelberg increases digital share

Heidelberg Digital claims to have captured 12% of the high-speed monochrome digital print market with its Digimaster 9110 in the past year

Donaldson leaves Jarvis Porter

Jarvis Porter has parted company with chief executive Hugh Donaldson after posting an interim pre-tax loss of 1.6m

Blow for Karat as Antilope drops DI

Karat has suffered a blow after its first customer decided to ditch the press

Flooding hits Lunnons hard

Paper merchant Lunnons found its Lewes sales office under four feet of water following flooding in southern England

Harlequin buys MAXWorkFlow

Harlequin has bought the MAXWorkFlow product line from developer Harris Publishing Systems

NexPress ready to ship 2100 alpha

NexPress will ship its first alpha model of the 2100 in the next month

Nuffield MBO from owner 3i

Nuffield Press has been bought by a management team from its main institutional owner 3i and former managing director Richard Holmes

Research predicts healthy century for print

Research by the Rochester Institute of Technology suggests that the decline of print at the hands of the Internet and other media is greatly overstated

Boiler "explosion" closes Sdra mill

Sdra Cells Tofte kraft pulp mill has been forced to cease production because of a rupture in its recovery boiler

Barco MBO plans off

Barco has blamed the recent spate of profit warnings among graphic arts suppliers for scuppering the MBO plans at its Graphics division

ESP takes UK's first Lithrone 40P

ESP Colour has invested 1.7m in the UK's first eight-colour Komori Lithrone 40P perfecting press

Yendole takes over at Varnicoat

Polestar Purnell managing director David Yendole has taken over at sister plant Varnicoat

Optimism over St Ives dispute

St Ives is optimistic that a solution is in sight to the wage negotiations across its web division

Field talks on hold

Negotiations over the future of Field's Thatcham plant have been temporarily suspended

No Xmas cheer for print firms

Printers are taking on more work with Christmas approaching but uncertainty arising from a disappointing year is clouding their optimism